6.0613 EMG: Sacred Electronic Texts Update (1/398)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 22 Mar 1993 14:29:33 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0613. Monday, 22 Mar 1993.
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 13:50:17 EST
From: MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA>
Subject: EMG: Sacred and Primary Electronic Texts UPDATE
The following is from The Electric Mystic's Guide, Volume One.
Please let me know if there are any corrections or omissions.
- Michael Strangelove (441495@acadvm1.uottawa.ca)
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Sacred and Primary Electronic Texts
The following is a listing of all electronic, network-accessible
sacred texts and primary texts of scholarly (or religious) interest
that may be freely retrieved via FTP or LISTSERV. The Bible, the
Book of Mormon and the Koran (also spelled Quran) are available at
many sites and in a variety of formats, such as ASCII, zipped
(.zip), compressed (.Z) and archived (.arc). The following section
indicates where low ASCII versions of these sacred texts may be
found on selected sites. For related programs see the section
Software Programs for Religious Studies (page 93). This section also
provides information on networked electronic versions of primary
texts that are of use to the academic community. Note that the CCAT
Gopher (ccat.sas.upenn.edu) is quickly developing into a major index
and database of Religious Studies primary and secondary texts. This
Gopher should be consulted for current information.
The Bible (King James Version)
Available as the files bible10.zip and bible10.txt from the Project
Gutenberg archives via FTP to mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.201.12)
in the /extext/etext92/ directory. Note that the available KJV
bibles on the Net do not include the apocrypha.
Nicene Creed. Various versions, English text (1991). Available
from ORTHODOX, listserv@indycms as CREED ENGLISH1 and
CREED ENGLISH2.
The Book of Mormon
Available as the files mormon13.txt and mormon13.zip from the
Project Gutenberg archives via FTP to mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
(128.174.201.12) in the /extext/etext91/ directory.
Other Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon
Church) Materials:
Doctrine and Covenants. Available as the file d-and-c.zip via
FTP from oak.oakland.edu in the /pub/msdos/mormon/
directory.
Pearl of Great Price. Available as pofgp.zip via FTP from
oak.oakland.edu in the /pub/msdos/mormon/ directory.
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians (Recensions)
English versions (includes short and long versions). Available via
the CCAT Gopher: gopher ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Select Course Materials
for Penn Humanities then Religious Studies then Early Judaism/Early
Christianity Seminar.
The Epistle of Ignatius to Polycarp (Recensions)
English versions (Cureton and Lightfoot-Harmer). Available via the
CCAT Gopher: gopher ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Select Course Materials for
Penn Humanities then Religious Studies then Early Judaism/Early
Christianity Seminar.
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans (Recensions)
English versions (Cureton, TLG Greek edited by P. T. Camelot,,
Lightfoot-Harmer edition; TLG Greek edited by F. X. Funk and F.
Diekamp). Available via the CCAT Gopher: gopher ccat.sas.upenn.edu.
Select Course Materials for Penn Humanities then Religious Studies
then Early Judaism/Early Christianity Seminar.
John Trevisa Corpus
Transcriptions of works (translations from Latin) of John Trevisa
(Defensio Curatorum, De Regimine Principum, Polychronicon, The
Gospel of Nicodemus) are available via FTP to
blackbox.hacc.washington.edu in the /pub/text/trevisa/ directory as
the files:
gospel.arc The Gospel of Nicodemus
defensio.arc Defensio Curatorum
regimine.arc De Regimine Principum
polychro.arc Polychronicon
Work on these texts is in progress, thus there are no notes at this
point regarding the thoroughness of proofreading and so forth. See
the README and fowler.his files for complete details on the state of
these texts.
The Kama Sutra
The text of the Love Teachings of Kama Sutra, translated by Indra
Sinha, is available as the file kama-sutra.Z from the Almanac
archives via FTP to 128.193.124.2 (oes.orst.edu) in the
/pub/almanac/etext/ directory.
The Koran (Quran)
M.H. Shakir's translation of the Koran is available as 114
individual ASCII text chapters via FTP to quake.think.com
(192.31.181.1) in the /pub/etext/koran/ directory (note that when
there are many files to be retrieved via FTP, use the command mget
*.* to retrieve all files in the current directory. Ensure that you
have sufficient disk space available on your e-mail account before
using the command mget to retrieve a large amount of data.) It is
also available via FTP to princeton.edu -- snake.mcs.kent.edu --
mcs.kent.edu -- hydra.unm.edu. The Koran and a related dictionary
is also available as koran-dict.Z and koran.Z via FTP to
oes.orst.edu (128.193.124.2) in the /pub/almanac/etext/ directory.
This version contains a few typographical errors which are
delineated in the file on-line-quran available via FTP to cs.dal.ca
(129.173.4.5) in the /pub/comp.archives/soc.religion.islam/
directory.
Note that retrieving the Quran in 114 separate files is only one
step in creating one's own electronic Quran for searching. Apart
from the titles of each file, there are no headings (thus no real
identifications) for the individual surahs (chapters). So one must
intersperse the file headers with the file contents to recreate a
useful consecutive text.
A short file of various quotes from the Koran is also available via
LISTSERV from listserv@asuacad.bitnet or listserv@asuacad as
PAKISTAN AL_QURAN.
Other Islamic Studies Materials:
American Arab Scientific Society (AMASS) Software Library at
cs.bu.edu (128.197.2.1) in the /amass/ directory.
USENET Newsgroup soc.religion.islam Archive at cs.dal.ca
(129.173.4.5) in the
/pub/comp.archives/soc.religion.islam/ directory.
See the section Islamic Studies (page 70) for more details and
resources.
Paraleipomena Jeremiou (Recensions)
English translation by R. A. Kraft and A. E. Purintun, (SBL Texts
and Translations 1, Pseudepigrapha Series 1, 1972) and English
translation by W. Newby, with R. A. Kraft. Available via the CCAT
Gopher: gopher ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Select Course Materials for Penn
Humanities then Religious Studies then Early Judaism/Early
Christianity Seminar.
Sanskrit Texts
A collection of Sanskrit texts is available via FTP to ftp.bcc.ac.uk
in the /pub/users/ucgadkw/indology/ directory. Available files are
as follows:
astadhyayi.zip Panini's Astadhyayi
brhatsam.zip Varahamihira's Brhatsamhita
buddhacarita.zip Asvaghosa's Buddhacarita
iass.zip EGA/VGA fonts for CSX charset
sanksaun.zip Sankara's Saundaryalahari
The same files, but with characters encoded according to the
International Association of Sanskrit Studies (IASS) "Vienna
Convention" or "Computer Sanskrit Extended (CSX)" character set will
be found at blackbox.hacc.washington.edu in the /pub/indic/
directory. Available files there are as follows:
bddhcrtm.zip Contains the TEI encoded text of the buddhacarita
prepared by Peter Schreiner retranscribed in the CS/CSX
encoding.
brhatsam.zip Contains the transcription of Varhahamira's
Brhatsamhita made available by Michio Yano and Mizue
Sugita (based on the A.V. Tripathi Sarasvati Bhavan
Granthamala edition) converted to Classical Sanskrit
extended 8-bit encoding (CS/CSX).
panini.zip Panini has the file sutrapat.csx, with the
asthadhyayi in the Classical Sanskrit extended character
set.
saundary.zip Contains the Peter Schreiner transcription of
Norman Brown's edition of Shankara's Saundarylahari
(converted to CSX encoding).
See the UPDATES document for complete information on these files.
Note that they are still in the process of error correction. These
files are also available (in the same form as on ftp.bcc.ac.uk) via
LISTSERV, send the command INDEX INDOLOGY to
listserv@liverpool.ac.uk for a complete list of available documents.
Second Book of Ezra (Recensions)
English versions. Available via the CCAT Gopher: gopher
ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Select Course Materials for Penn Humanities then
Religious Studies then Early Judaism/Early Christianity Seminar.
The Tanach
The Hebrew text of the Tanach is available via FTP to
wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) in the
/wuarchive/mirrors3/archive.umich.edu/msdos/foreign_lang/hebrew/
directory as three files:
tanach1.zip The Torah
tanach2.zip The Prophets
tanach3.zip The Writings
>From the same directory is also available these related files:
heb-disp.zip An MSDOS utility program for displaying
Hebrew letters on the monitor screen of a personal
computer.
reveal.zip An MSDOS utility program that counts occurrences
of letters in the Tanach.
The Two Ways (Barn. 18:1-21:9; Did. 1:1-6:2 Recensions)
English versions. Available via the CCAT Gopher: gopher
ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Select Course Materials for Penn Humanities then
Religious Studies then Early Judaism/Early Christianity Seminar.
Urantial Texts
There is over ten megabytes of texts in English and French available
from the URANTIAL forum, concerned with the ideas presented in The
URANTIA Book. For a complete list of these URANTIAL forum documents,
retrieve the 00_INDEX.LST file via FTP to wuarchive.wustl.edu in the
/pub/urantia/ directory.
Searching for Word Patterns in Online Sacred Texts
Keyword searches of selected sacred texts (and others) can be
conducted online via the CCAT Gopher. Search results return the text
section in which the keyword appears. These results can then be
mailed to the user. To conduct searches, gopher ccat.sas.upenn.edu
and select CCAT Text Archives and Related Material from Elsewhere.
You will be presented with the following menu:
CCAT Text Archives and Related Material from Elsewhere
1. Greek & Hebrew ALIGNMENT: Search pattern, please?
2. VULGATE: Search pattern, please? <?>
3. KJV BIBLE: Search pattern, please? <?>
4. RSV BIBLE: Search pattern, please? <?>
5. QURAN: Search pattern, please? <?>
6. SHAKESPEARE: Search pattern, please? <?>
7. MILTON: Search pattern, please? <?>
8. BK OF MORMON: Search pattern, please? <?>
FYI -- Special Internet Connections
A six page directory of special Internet archives and servers,
written by Scott Yanoff, is available as the file inet.services.txt
via FTP from csd4.csd.uwm.edu in the /pub/ directory.
Searching for Online Sacred Texts with Archie
The sacred texts listed above are available via FTP through many
different hosts around the world. If the above locations are
difficult to reach from your location you can find alternative
locations by using an Archie server. Telnet to the nearest Archie
server and login as archie. To conduct a search type prog keyword
where keyword is the name of the desired text. Some appropriate
keywords are bible, koran, quran, mormon, and tanach. If your site
does not allow for Telnet sessions it is possible to search Archie
by sending e-mail messages to the nearest server.
Information on how to use Archie can be obtained by sending the
command HELP as an e-mail message to archie@archie.mcgill.ca (or
archie@any.node.below). Other helpful documents are What is Archie?
(Richard Hintz, 1991), available via FTP as the file
archie_guide.txt from the node hydra.uwo.ca in the directory
/libsoft/ and the document Internet Archie Server Listing Service:
A Reference Manual, (R.P.C. Rodgers, 1991), available via FTP as
the file archieuser.gde from the node infolib.murdoch.edu.au in the
/pub/soft/archie/ directory. There is also available Peter Deutsch's
document, Archie - An Electronic Directory Service for the Internet,
which can be retrieved as the file whatis.archie via FTP from the
node ftp.sura.net in the /pub/nic/archie/docs/ directory. For
detailed user instructions, see also the file archie.man.txt in the
same directory.
Archie will provide user information if you type the command help.
It is possible to have your Telnet session search results mailed to
you by typing the command mail your@address which causes the output
of the last command to be mailed to the specified address or
comma-separated list of addresses (replace your@address with your e-
mail address. All the various Internet addressing styles are
understood. BITNET sites should use the convention
user@sitename.bitnet). If you use the command set mailto
your@address before conducting any searches with the prog command,
then the output of any search will be mailed to you upon entering
the command mail. This is very useful if you intend to conduct a
number of searches in one session.
Archie Locations World Wide:
archie.unl.edu (129.93.1.14)
University of Nebraska in Lincoln server
archie.sura.net (128.167.254.179)
USA server
archie.ans.net (147.224.1.2)
ANS archie server (USA)
archie.rutgers.edu (128.6.18.15)
Rutgers U., Piscataway, New Jersey server
archie.mcgill.ca (132.206.2.3)
Canadian server, original Archie server
archie.au (139.130.4.6)
Australian server
archie.funet.fi (128.214.6.100)
European server in Finland
archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.11.3)
United Kingdom server
archie.cs.huji.ac.il (132.65.6.15)
Israel server
archie.ncu.edu.tw (140.115.19.24)
Far East server
archie.wide.ad.jp (133.4.3.6)
Japanese server
archie.ncu.edu.tw (140.115.19.24)
Taiwanese server
Reading Texts Online
The Bible, Koran and Book of Mormon can be read online via Telnet to
the University of Maryland's Info Database. Telnet to info.umd.edu
and login as info. Select Reading Room and then select Religion. It
is possible to FTP the texts from this system but, due to the
systems design, it is not altogether as easy as FTPing them from the
above sites. The Koran, King James Version of the Bible and the Book
of Mormon are also available for reading online from the Cleveland
Free-Net. Telnet to freenet-in-a.cwru.edu or freenet-in-b.cwru.edu
or freenet-in-c.cwru.edu and login as (2) Visitor, select (11)
Library and then select (3) Electronic Bookshelf.
These texts can also be read online via the CCAT Gopher
at ccat.sas.upenn.edu.
For More Information on Electronic Sacred Texts
The following information files will help you locate electronic
texts that are not available on the Net. Note that most of these
texts are not free.
Catalogue of Electronic Text Projects. (Georgetown Center for
Text and Technology, Georgetown University, 1990).
Available from HUMANIST, listserv@brownvm as PROJECTS
ETEXTS.
CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts (CLCLT) on CD-ROM
Information File. (1991). Available from HUMANIST,
listserv@brownvm as CLCLT CDROM and as CLCLT CETEDOC.
Electronic Bibles and Biblical Studies Project Listing.
(Georgetown Center for Text and Technology, Georgetown
University, 1991). Available from CONTENTS,
listserv@uottawa or listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca as
BIBLICAL E-TEXTS.
Electronic Septuagint Studies Project Listing. (Georgetown
Center for Text and Technology, Georgetown University,
1991). Available from CONTENTS,
listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca or listserv@uottawa as LXX-
JUD E-TEXTS.
List of Texts and Software Available from the Center for
Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT). (1988). Available
from HUMANIST, listserv@brownvm as CCAT COLLECTN. A
current listing is available via Gopher to
ccat.sas.upenn.edu.
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